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F L ' .;. =- "'- = -- - , - - - '" - .. ,) =--- - -: /?E " { ( . < 77 - . --- - ---"- ::- - -= -- : - ' _ / --::: ::: ... - . --, :so.. --------=- -=,:;" . :, , t;.: , =:-=:. 5) '); 7 fI t? ,. :-=' _' "-" 1-4--- r 'r--- .. - ,- _ iL-. -;...-= .::: _ it seems to me that Mr. O'Neil, using his lyric gifts in the fashioning of dia- logue which has a fine swing and not a little real beauty, has also demonstrat- ed in the climaxes of his three little plays a sense of what the theatre wants, and bids fair to be a contributor of rare importance to the new Theatre (for I take it for granted that there is to be a ne.w Theatre). Douglass Montgomery was as happy it choice for the perennial Pingree as could have been imagined and has added cubits to his stat- ure as an actor by this one crusade. Stanley Ridges, who has been wasting his time for years rushing on and off musical - comedy stages in double-breast- ed blue serge suits (maybe he didn't wear them, but his col- leagues in the juvenile profession always do), is at last, after a preliminary work- out in "Dangerous Corner," the full- fledged actor that he always gave evidence of being. And the others w horn the Guild has gathered to- gether-Lee Baker, Josephine Hull, Gale Sondergaard, Leona Hogarth, and, of course, Helen Westley-all help fill out the rather depressing and carefully thought-out scheme which Mr. O'Neil has contrived for break- ing a family into bits. An actor from what must have been the Jewish Art Theatre, named Samuel Goldenberg, completely takes over his scenes at the end of the play, and for the first time makes a stage radical seem im- portant enough to start a revolution. He should be worth any amount of money to Mr. Elmer Rice. T HERE is little use in dwelling on Arthur Hopkins' "Conquest," be- cause it has closed. It was a desperate attempt on Mr. Hopkins' part to write what he felt he wanted to write, and it is too bad that he allowed his feel- ings to run away with Ílis sense of what an audience would take in the matter of dialectics. "Conquest" was obviously sincere, but it was also obviously hard to take. f:: :! I AM sorry that I am so late in re- porting on the work of another American playwright, Mr. James Hagan, who has in "One Sunday Afternoon" written as simple and touching a love story as we have had in the theatre for years. But if the reaction MARCH , 1 3.3 of the audience on the night when I saw it (not the première) was any in- dication of how audiences in general are going to take it, my word has not been needed. With practically no pre- tence at all, and even with no quality to distinguish it except a completely honest feeling for the simplicity of middle-class love life (I don't know w hat "middle-class love life" is, but in Mr. Hagan's play it is a thing to cry loudly over), "One Sunday After- noon" takes its place in the records of the Little Theatre along with that mem- orable piece of sen ti- ment, Mr. Con- nelly's "The \Visdom Tooth," as just about . ( d ".". as nIce an nIce IS the word) a little playas you could ask to see. It is immeas- urably enhanced by the performances of Lloyd Nolan, Fran- cesca Bruning, Mary Holsman, and Percy Helton, some of whom you may not have heard of before, but all four of whom you will want to see agaIn. 1\ NOTHER late report is on a n. melodrama called "Before Morn- ing," with Jessie Royce Landis, Louis Jean Heydt, :McKay Morris, and Louise Prussing as its most important interpreters. It isn't a memorable work that Edna and Edward P. Riley have written, but it is certainly not a waste of time, unless you don't happen to care whether an innocent woman is sent to the chair or not. I HOPE that you will not gather from all these sympathetic remarks that your old teacher has gone softy. It just so happens that it has been a very good week. -ROBERT BENCH LEY . PARTY holding picture, brown frame, church, people bowing, lady passing pul- pit with Paisley shawl, high hat, Bible in her hand, kindly return to Box Y 162.- A dv. in Pittsburgh Sun- Telegraph. With a straight face? . A THOUGHT FOR THIS WEEK [From the Times] By late night sessions the report con- demning economic nationalism was rush- ed to signature to enable the Americans to catch the Leviathan because Washing- ton insists that they travel only on Ameri- can ships and there is no other American ship departure for a fortnight